The Bloggers of Catan

Catanism, the blog for serious Catan fans. This blog is where Klaus Teuber and the rest of the “Bloggers of Catan” write about new game developments and provide lots of in-depth information about each title.

2011 was my first year as a Catan GmbH staff member. In the same year, our Japanese licensee launched a rectangular Catan carrying case. I immediately fell in love with the idea of a carrying case. Hence, the carrying case became my first big project, and I eagerly started working.
Kosmos still had several (thousand) sets of game pieces from the old travel edition in stock, so it seemed reasonable to use these pieces for the Japanese carrying case. …

As promised in our last blog post and also in the Star Trek Catan: Federation Space Almanac, we would like to provide an in-depth look into the creation of the game maps, with special emphasis on the planets and the other objects that we used, where we put them, and why.

Many of you asked us to take the joint venture of the two franchises Catan and Star Trek even further towards the “Final Frontier.” So we thought: Let us take Star Trek Catan into a “real” region of space to put our little NCC-1701 spaceships in. The crucial question was: Is there a region of space sufficiently “real” inside the Star Trek – The Original Series time period?

In the 7th and final part of our latest Catanism blog post about “Explorers & Pirates,” the upcoming fourth large expansion for “The Settlers of Catan,” Klaus Teuber elaborates on the identically named scenario “Explorers & Pirates,” which is played with all three missions and combines all tactical and strategic possibilities.

The fifth part of Klaus Teuber's latest Catanism blog post about “Explorers & Pirates”, the upcoming fourth large expansion for “The Settlers of Catan” deals with whales – and the mission “Fish for Catan.”

Land Ho! The third part of the latest Catanism blog post by Klaus Teuber about “Explorers & Pirates”, the upcoming fourth large expansion for “The Settlers of Catan”, will tell you everything about the Introductory Game.

Why isn't Star Trek Catan a remake of The Starfarers of Catan? Why do all players play on the side of the Federation? Why are there so many Enterprise starships? Why is the robber a Klingon?
These and many similar questions have kept Catanians and Trekkers busy since first details about the game were made public after Star Trek Catan was announced (see also here).
Below, I would like to answer some of these questions. …